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It's Pipes, Mum! Pipes is here! @scriblit.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Rush To Diagnose Children "Left Handed" Can Scar Them For Life, Worry Right Handed People Fears mount a recent influx of kids written off as "Left Handed" can lock them out of using right handed scissors Opinion: Jobson LeCruesset-Natwest - I was kicked if I used my left hand & I turned out great

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Elizabeth Anne, PhD @lacksauthority.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

never the wrong time for this classic

Screenshot of a tweet by @RobbtKraft reading “scientist: "does everyone here know what Watson and Crick discovered?"
me from back of room: "Rosalind Franklin's notes"”

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geoffrey 💀 (scary now) @parsnip.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

very tired of being told it is the responsibility of urban democratic voters never to risk possibly maybe by chance seeming less than respectful of rural red state life and then watching thousands in nebraska cheer on the president joking about a nuclear strike on me and millions of my neighbors

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ceej @ceej.online · 04/10/2026

“how do we win back trump voters in 2026” we don’t. we create an environment where admitting to voting for trump is so socially embarrassing as to render them completely inert. you don’t “win back” trump voters. you demoralize them into staying home. you make it a dunce cap

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Robert Rose @robear.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

A good fresh Star Trek take on those fake isekai title jokes

A tumblr screenshot showing a post and two reblog responses, reading:
1. "star trek would be the ideal fictional universe to get trapped in because you'd explain your situation and they'd be like yeah makes sense. no further questions. fortunately we can use the mysterious warp signature emitting from this system's icy moon to counterface with the solar radiation and slingshot you back home"
2. "I'm from a universe where your world is all a work of fiction." Benjamin Sisko, nodding. "That happened to me once."
3. "I Got Isekaid Into The Star Trek Universe And They Quickly Understood What Was Happening"

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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 02/10/2026

!!!! from “Polarization Is Not the Problem” by @lilymasonphd.bsky.social — muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...

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Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Announcing the merger with Titanic footage is an incredible bit

David Ellison • @ellisonskyd... 2h
What once was the peak, is now just the beginning.
Paramount and Warner Bros. shaped over a century of culture. By combining them, we aren't rewriting history — we're equipping these iconic studios with a more powerful engine. Together, we are Skydance: a creative-first ho Show

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Lux 🌸 Alptraum @luxalptraum.com · 02/10/2026

IDK this surge of “if every rape survivor self-IDs on the internet change will happen” is sure making me wonder if you all have collective amnesia from 2017

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Rubyvroom @rubyvroom.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Glad I got to see this before it was pulled down, it gave me a lot to think about. I'm reading all of these Digger reviews thinking about your points about how interpretation impacts filmmakers. If the content is virtuous, and the structure is clever, surely the film is good! - Iñárritu, maybe.

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Rubyvroom @rubyvroom.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Will be fun to compare and contrast against The Phoenician Scheme. That is, if I manage to sit through Digger.

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Hannah Vardit @hannahvardit.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

i worry that men think being A Good Guy is dramatically and heroically intervening on behalf of an endangered woman and then being publicly rewarded on a grand scale when actually being A Good Guy is just usually saying, “hey man that’s not funny” or “wow that’s fucked up” and there is no reward

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Spokane Rising @spokanerising.com · 29/09/2026

Send Stephen Miller to The Hague.

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mattie lubchansky @mattielubchansky.com · 05/07/2026

PROTIP: Before responding to a post online, press “X” to equip EYEBALLS to perform the READ action to check if ten people have already said the same exact unfunny non-joke

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Ben Winters @benwinters.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

that chatbot doing that unsafe/violative thing is not it 'going rogue' or an 'unfortunate incident of unintended consequences,' it’s the logical and devastating consequences of an unsafe product put out by irresponsible companies that have been conditioned to believe consequences dont exist for them

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Rubyvroom @rubyvroom.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Yes, I am asking for a critical reappraisal of Tears for Fears and Pet Shop Boys, and even my go-to kareoke fave Erasure. Why does synthpop remain mild-to-moderately embarassing while modern Pop girlies get props for imitating them?

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Rubyvroom @rubyvroom.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Is it time yet to revise the early-Human-League vs late-Human-League debate? "Penthouse and Pavement" and "Dare" are both good albums?

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Rubyvroom @rubyvroom.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I wonder when poptimism will apply retroactively to the synthpop groups of the 80s who have been ruthlessly mined for inspiration the last 15 years or so.

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Tom the Dancing Bug, by Ruben Bolling @rubenbolling.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Happy 50th Birthday to Stevie Wonder’s Songs in the Key of Life, not only my favorite album is all time, but one of my favorite THINGS, up there with pizza, dogs, sunsets, and the laughter of children.

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hermanos. @iamdavidbrothers.com · 19/09/2026

some of the best comics in the world are in this bundle of PDFs from Fantagraphics, written and drawn by titans of the medium. Bay Area Legend Briana Loewinsohn is in here. Joe Sacco is a good read. Stan Sakai is a ton of fun. George Herriman too. Well worth it. www.humblebundle.com/books/50-ess...

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Humble Comic Bundle: 50 Essential Fantagraphics Titles by Fantagraphics

Fill your digital shelves with this collection of 50 fantastic Fantagraphics titles! Pay what you want and support the Freedom of the Press Foundation!

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ve, the ghost of info past @vortexegg.com · 22/09/2026

To the degree Roko’s basilisk does stand in as a proxy for a joint ideological commitment in tech, I think some significant number of tech people implicitly believe in a devil’s bargain that if they help build the global surveillance state they get to be one of the good ones that isn’t mowed down.

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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Here you go! The Ellison Billionaire Empire.

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Rubyvroom @rubyvroom.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Out of the albums listed. I would have worked in A Silver Mount Zion just above POSES, I think.

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the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

rip annie dillard

One of the things I know about writing is this: spend it all, shoot it, play it, lose it, all, right away, every time. Do not hoard what seems good for a later place in the book or for another book; give it, give it all, give it now. The impulse to save something good for a better place later is the signal to spend it now. Something more will arise for later, something better. These things fill from behind, from beneath, like well water. Similarly, the impulse to keep to yourself what you have learned is not only shameful, it is destructive. Anything you do not give freely and abundantly becomes lost to you. You open your safe and find ashes.

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Scott Tobias @scotttobias.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

This is a legitimately astounding piece of work.

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Rubyvroom @rubyvroom.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Sad! I would have stumped for that one.

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Rubyvroom @rubyvroom.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

There are two songs I really love from YHF, "Radio Cure" and "Reservations". But there are six songs from WBC so it's White Stripes for me. This may be impacted by the current state of the world and my desire to listen to something FUN, admittedly. Add your vote!

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Rubyvroom @rubyvroom.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I must have missed my chance to vote for this one. Great album.

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Rubyvroom @rubyvroom.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I did not realize some of these existed! Good work

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Rubyvroom @rubyvroom.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Full agree on this ranking. I feel like a lot of the YHF proponents just haven't listened to the other albums?

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Rubyvroom @rubyvroom.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I went to see it last night largely because of your review! And it was exactly the film I needed to see right now, so thank you.

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Paul F. Tompkins @pftompkins.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

In light of everything that’s going on

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🌈 Hailey Piper 🌈 @haileypiperfights.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

NBC News interviewed a plank with a face drawn on it and asked if it could fall in love with humans

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Jonathan Roberts @jonrob5000.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Peter Falk was born today so here’s a collection of Columbos

Star Trek scribble of Captain COLUMBO of the USS Enterprise

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Joel Morris @gralefrit.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

It’s a failure of imagination and wider reading on the part of tech guys to invent Roko’s Basilisk, a thought experiment about a vengeful god that will punish you for not cooperating, while their tech enrages Mother Nature, a vengeful god we’ve had available in our pantheon for millennia.

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Rubyvroom @rubyvroom.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

If you are a gamer and you aren't a member of the weird rationalist cult a chatbot just isn't all that impressive. We've been chatting to NPCs most of our lives.

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Rubyvroom @rubyvroom.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

ChatGPT has a personality you say? So does Mario. So does GLADOS. So does Astarion. They're programmed that way. The beings in my Dwarf Fortress have autonomy and can do all kinds of crazy things without my control. Are they sentient? Of course not, dumbass. They're computer programs.

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Rubyvroom @rubyvroom.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

It seems to me that people who have been interacting with programmed video game characters for years are way less impressed with LLMs than people who have never had a real conversation with a computer before and think it makes the computer alive.

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RS Benedict @rsbenedict.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

this--THIS--is the truest recession indicator

Sticker on a cooler at a convenience store advertising Arizona iced tea cans at $1.50 each.

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UK Prime Minister, Some Say Sinister @joemuggs.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

it's objectively hilarious that capital-p Poptimism peaked in the age of the most vapid megastars - Sheeran and Drake above all - and is now a confused mess just in time for the genuinely incredible hyper literate pop era of PinkPantheress, Olivia, Sabrina, Doechii and co but whaddyagonnado

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The Monday Meeting

Despite critics hailing this as an age of cultural stagnation, a quiet, globalised explosion of taste is happening right now led by teenagers, writes Joe Muggs.

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Rubyvroom @rubyvroom.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I think an underrated aspect of taste forming is not just the new stuff you consume when you're 17, but the people who passed away when you are 17 and you dove into their stuff and discovered how cool they were. It's something that deepened your foundation.

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Alex de Campi @alexdecampi.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

BREAKING: La Llorona will no longer be opening for ed sheeran “He can get fucked” commented bassist Hopey Glass “If he was really hardcore he would have thrown… his full support behind Palestine” said lead singer Monica Zandinski

Jaime Hernandez’ cover to Love & Rockets #24 (iirc), showing a band (female guitarist and bassist, both with dark hair) rocking out onstage at a gig. Just by looking at them you can tell they have way better vibes than sheeran.

Also because it’s Xaimeh the spot blacks are so good they make other artists cry

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Rubyvroom @rubyvroom.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

If you're scratching your head on this, Behind the Bastards did a nice summing-up in their Zizians episodes youtu.be/9mJAerUL-7w?...

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Part One: The Zizians: How Harry Potter Fanfic Inspired a Death Cult | BEHIND THE BASTARDS

YouTube video by Behind the Bastards

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